Machine for cutting beans and other legumes.



P. A. DE LANGE.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING BEANS AND OTHER LEGUME'S.

APPLICATION FILED news. I913.

l 1 53,04 1 Patented Sept. 7,1915.

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ATTORNEY PIETER ABRAHAM DE,I|ANG'E, OF ALKMAAR, NETHERLANDS.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING BEANS AND OTHER LEGUMES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. '7, 1915.

Application filed December 13, 1913. Serial No, 806,462.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, PETER ABRAHAM DE LANGE,manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, residing atKennemerpark, in the city of Alkmaar and the Province of North Holland,Netherlands,

have invented newand useful Improvements in a Machine for Cuttmg Beansand other Legumes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for cutting beans and other legumes.

According to this invention, this machine comprises an endless conveyerband and a set of rotary feed rollers, which form a funnel into whichthe goods to be out are guided by the endless band and conveyed by meansof the feed rollers to a rotary cutting disk to be cut.

Referring to the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machinewith one of the side walls missing. Fig. 2 is a planof the machine, andFig. 3 is a front elevation of the machine with the belt and its sup-.

' porting and actuating means omitted.

A frame of any desirable form serves for supporting the driving shaft (5of the endless band Z and for arranging the means for transmitting therotary'moveme'nt of the shaft 1. to the hand. These means may be of anydesirable construction; "In the illustrated form, they comprise abevel-wheel gear, which connects the main shaft a with a supplementalshaft 0, from which latter the endless band I) is driven by means of agear transmission. The main shaft a serves further for transmitting therotary movement to the feed rollers, which latter, in common with theendless band Z), form the funnel for receiving the goods to be cut.

This driving gear constitutes a number, of-

I u h gear wheels engaging with each other,

which drive a supplemental shaft 6 mount ed parallel to the main shafta. The movement of said supplemental shaft 6 is transmitted to therollers f by any suitable means.

In the illustrated form of construction,

v the transmission of movement from the shaft 6 to. the rollers f isperformed by means of a bevel-wheel gear and spur wheels. The latter arearranged on the up per and lower ends of the rollers and intermesh witheach other, so that the rollers which are in sets of two rotate inopposite Copies of this patent may be obtained for directions to eachother to advance the beans to the cutter. Adjacent the roller 7, agrating g is arranged, which serves for guiding the goods to be cut to acuttingdisk it, which is arranged adjacent the grating g and is mountedon the driving shaft a.

The endless band 6 is guided over a pluv 1 I a rality of conveyeirollers z, c, z, 2,, a, z,

ofwhich the twofront ones are so arranged that they guide the band inadownward direction. Thefeed rollers are arranged at an acute angle tothe slanting band, while the grating is by preference verticallydisposed and parallel to the cutting disk and between said disk and thefeed rollers. The goods to be out are placed on the endless band movingtoward the feed rollers and pass into the funnel or wedge-shaped spacebetween the slanting part of the band and the feed rollers. The beans orother goods to be out are gripped by a pair of feed rollers and fedthrough the slits of the grat same rollers are adapted toreceive one ormore beans before the first bean has been completely cut. 7

I claim A machine for cutting beans and other legumes comprising amovable cutter, a grating adjacent the cutter, a plurality of spacedpairs of feed rolls adjacent the grating the openings between which feedrolls register with the openings in the grating for feeding the legumesthrough the grat ing to the cutter, and an endless conveyer bandarranged to move adjacent the feed rolls in a plane slanting relativelyto the axes of the rolls for feeding the legumes to the latter in anoblique directionrelatively to the aXes of the feed rolls.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of t vo subscribing witnesses.

' PIETER ABRAHAM DE LANGE.

Witnesses: I

AREMD Konvnnon, C. HILDERING.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of. Patents, Washington,I); 0.

